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Supply Chain Management
A roundup of supply chain news
Manufacturing
Sweet Green Fields opens Chi-
nese factory
Sweet Green Fields, a US-based pro-
ducer of a sweetener called Reb-A , has
opened a 160,000-square-foot extraction
plant in China. The plant will allow SGF to
double its production. SGF’s natural sweet-
ener is considered to be up to 300 times
sweeter then sucrose. It is an all-natural,
high-intensity and zero calorie, low glyce-
mic sweetener extracted from the stevia
leaf. Reb-A is one of 10 glycosides in the
stevia plant, native to Paraguay. Stevia in
its raw form has been used as a natural
sweetener for centuries in South Ameri-
ca.
- China Daily
Top entrepreneur award to Chi-
Chinese workers are seen operating nese auto glass tycoon
R&D
the Magic Cube (code-named Dawning
Cao Dewang, Chairman of Fuyao Glass
5000A) supercomputer at the Shanghai
Supercomputer Center in Shanghai.
Industry Group, has been named the Ernst
Chinese developed supercom- & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year
puter hits worlds top 10 2009. Cao was picked from among the
A domestically developed supercom-
and scientists. According to a company
43 entrepreneurs vying for the title, each
puter, the fastest electronic brain in Asia,
spokesman, the facility will focus its re-
of whom had already been named the
started regular operations 15 June 2009
search on search, advertising, cloud
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year
in Shanghai, marking a major milestone in
computing, and other personal Internet
in their home countries. Founded in 1987
Chinas information technology industry.
tools and technologies. Before the estab-
in Fuzhou, Fuyao Glass is Chinas leading
The Shanghai-based machine, called the
lishment of the Beijing center, Yahoo had
automotive glass manufacturer, with more
Magic Cube, boasts a peak performance of
just two global R&D centers, one at its US
than half of the overall domestic market.
200 teraflops, or 200 trillion calculations
headquarters in California, and the other
The company is also an approved original
per second, 20 times faster than the previ-
in Bangalore.
equipment manufacturer for automakers
ous model. It ranks No. 10 on the worlds
- China Daily
based around the globe, including Audi,
list of speedy computers, and is the only
one made outside the United States to
earn a place in the top 10. The supercom-
puter, code-named Dawning 5000A, cost
200 million yuan (US$29 million), with the
central and Shanghai governments each
contributing half the investment.
Yahoo opens Beijing R&D cen-
ter
The American internet giant Yahoo has
opened a new R&D center in Beijing, tap-
ping into China’s deep pool of engineers Cao Dewang, chairman of Fuyao Glass Industry Group
20 JULY/AUGUST 2009
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